'Our clear aim is to bring the street-people in right order

I find myself drawn to stay in Brisbane at the moment because my street ministry is going so well here. There is a brilliant drop-in centre here for street people, but I am the only one doing actual street evangelization.

From the beginning the archbishop of Brisbane gave me a spontaneous, enthusiastic blessing for this.

In the main, it is on my way to mass in the city and after it that I meet the people. This gives me a great reason to mention 'Church' to them; I am aware that God calls everyone to His family, the Church (cf.CCC 1).

At times God graces us with moments of transfiguration as we stand in awe together, lifted in our sprits to unimagined richness. I am also aware that to renew the Church, we are to start from 'the least'. I see the most heavy-laden as creations of immeasurable dignity, each called by God to rise and in turn become ministers themselves, cutting straight through the disguise of their present state. I am also blessed with an absolute love of studying Catholic truth, so this prepares me to be able to answer questions properly. I have developed a motto that everyone in the know accepts: 'Our clear aim is to bring the street-people in right order, into full participation in the mass'.

It is a life of immense fulfilment. Thank you for those who prepared me for this!

Peter playing the guitar on the street of Perth.

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' When we adopt a pastoral goal and a missionary style which would actually reach everyone without exception or exclusion, the message has to concentrate on the essentials, on what is most beautiful, most grand, most appealing and at the same time most necessary. The message is simplified, while losing none of its depth and truth, and thus becomes all the more forceful and convincing.'

(Evangelii gaudium 35)